PS: Lately I am learning to fish a Mirrolure 77M (vintage lure) and I am kind of liking it more and more.This might become my go to versatile lure. Will post an update depending on how my upcoming trips go....

Good start there Kingfish. As y'all know my experience with saltwater fishing is limited to fly gear, but from what little I've experienced with the conventional kit so far, the following top 3 should do it;

However, there are several brands that are extra tough and last a lot, lot longer. A prime example is the Zman soft plastics brand, mentioned above by Venkat. These are advertised as being 10 times tougher than normal soft plastics and I can vouch for their toughness and effectiveness.

The Squidgy brand is easy to shred by toothy fish but it is such an effective fishcatcher that one cannot discount it from the selection ( Maruthu will attest to that !).

Squidgies retail for about A$ 7 for a packet of 6, so it is relatively cheap. Replacement tails are readily available for less money.

I read through your attachment and found it to be very interesting, with a bias towards US lures. Thebucktail is very popular in North America but does not get a mention from anyone in India.

What about your favourites?

Kingfish

Kingfish,

I used to use bucktails a lot.When I came back to India from the US about 6 years ago, I almost ran out of them.The last bucktail I had was lost to a toothy critter in Kanyakumari about five years ago.Binu was fishing with us in the west coast last weekend and he was throwing bucktail lures.

If I had to re do my list seperately for inshore fishing and surf fishing, I think that'll be easy as I usually don't fish too many lures in a session anyway. Let me try to list them again....

Regarding the west coast trip last weekend, we got there only at 8:30 pm on Friday morning and only had a small productive window to fish. Binu, Durvesh and I were fishing. We missed a few strikes during our first session. That evening it rained heavily and we were not able to fish.

The second day, the water was a bit murky due of the heavy rain the previous night and we fished a deeper spot in search of the Threadfins, but the fish weren't there. That evening, it rained heavily again. The next (Sunday) morning, the high tide was close to 10 am and Binu started fishing a little early at around 7 am and landed a MJ at around 7:30 am on a 6" golden bomber lure. It was a nice fish that weighed 3 kilos. I started fishing at 8 am and I had one strike on a 6" bomber A Salt lure in chicken scratch colour pattern, but I couldn't hook up. And the action died after that, though the water looked really promising. We tried a little bit of fishing that evening before catching our return bus to Bangalore, but nothing to show for it.

I'll probably fish this place again in November and/or in December. Hopefully land more fish then....

I have not caught a lot of fish on the super strike popper, but its always a joy to watch this thing fly when you cast. There was one evening when huge barracuda were feeding 100+ yards beyond the surf. I had a 9 feet G Loomis surf rod, and couldn't reach them with most of my lures. I threw the SS popper and within a couple of cranks saw a huge splash on the surface, and thought that was a shark hitting my popper. After a 15-20 minute fight I landed this beautiful GT of 18 kilo.

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Thanks for your post ........ your 100 yards cast is phenomenal and perhaps we can have a separate topic on our longest casts together with the rod and reel combination utilised.

However, I digress.

That is a superb GT you have caught under circumstances where the rest of us would have given up asthe action was beyond our reach.

If I am not wrong, the Super Strike poppers are a US product, very popular there but relatively unknown elsewhere. I do have a couple of their smaller poppers and find them nicely weighted, have to try themout especially after your experience.

I see that no soft plastics make your list but you do include a metal lure in your choice of three.

@kingfish the last pic is one of the only two times i have managed to catch sea bass (chonak\barramundi) on a soft lure ((they seem to prefer hard body lures from where i fish )) .....this pirticular fish shredded and completly destroyed a brand new softie ......havent had the chance to land a threadfin salmon ( rawas) on a soft bait so far ..the search continues!

I have not caught a lot of fish on the super strike popper, but its always a joy to watch this thing fly when you cast. There was one evening when huge barracuda were feeding 100+ yards beyond the surf. I had a 9 feet G Loomis surf rod, and couldn't reach them with most of my lures. I threw the SS popper and within a couple of cranks saw a huge splash on the surface, and thought that was a shark hitting my popper. After a 15-20 minute fight I landed this beautiful GT of 18 kilo.

Dude Binu, that's a massive GT right there! that too from the surf. Good going man. West or East coast?

Must take some Tilsan Barras to India this year ...... in fact, I am getting them from my tackle box right now for packing!

By the way ..... do you still have that pink and silver Halco Scorpion lure? It was a very deep diver, some 8 meter + , if I am not wrong.

If so, you can change the bib on it ( from another Halco lure ) so that it can be made into a shallow or mid depth lure. It depends on the replacement bib.

Changing the bib is quite easy. You first push out the cross piece behind the bib with a small nail, take out the old bib and replace with the new one, then push the cross piece into place to lock everything tight.

Hi Kingfish ...yes, i do have it with me, am waiting it to use in the right place. Twice got tangled in the abanded nets, I paid some money and got it from the local fisherman's. Sure I'll try changing the bib. Thanks for your advice.

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